tool-design - Design effective tools for agents
Design and optimize agent tools, including when to consolidate or reduce tool complexity.
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Updated: 2026-09-29Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- Design agent tool APIs
- Consolidate overlapping tools
- Reduce tool architecture complexity
- Engineer tool descriptions
- Optimize response formats
- Design actionable error messages
- Standardize tool schemas
- Organize tool collections
- Apply MCP naming conventions
Inputs
- Tool requirements
- Agent use cases
- Existing tool sets
- Tool definitions and schemas
- Codebase conventions
Outputs
- Tool design recommendations
- Tool API specifications
- Tool descriptions and schemas
- Response format guidance
- Error message designs
- Tool organization conventions